Re: package managers problem
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:38 AM gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> On 6/19/23 22:41, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:58:18 +0200
> > Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >> I've been watching this thread from afar for a while and it still
> >> puzzles me why people keep bringing up wayland. I've been running
> >> wayland for years, and synaptic works with no issues as far as I can
> >> tell. Is this just FUD from a user that never tried it or is something
> >> broken on that user's system?
> >>
> >
> > A couple of years ago, I switched to Wayland temporarily and was unable
> > to run Synaptic (with an error message). The phenomenon is real. I
> > don't know how you manage it. But I don't recall anyone on this thread
> > besides you claiming it could be done.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> I'm with you Paul, if Anders know how to do it, please PUBLISH the how.
> For a while on bullseye, a "sudo -E synaptic" worked, then even that
> died mid-bullseye, somebody plugged a perceived hole and didn't bother
> to mention it to the many thousands of users.
There's really nothing to publish. I started synaptic from my desktop
environment using the default icon installed by the debian package. No
weird "sudo" incantations. It asks my password and then starts up.
Since I normally don't use Synaptic and have not started it in years
as far as I can remember, I have not configured it to do anything
special. As demonstrated by Didier Gaumet in this thread it works by
default on a fresh install of debian stable.
All the bugs I find online are from the time before bullseye.
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